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beardism
noun 3
Collocations
3VERB + BEARDISM
budding, note
BEARDISM + NOUN
beard-racism, e
PREP.
into
Definitions
noun
1
Prejudice against bearded people.
Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair.
When the Americans first took me on there was great debate about it. They thought it might be seen as shifty or untrustworthy. They said, 'Oh he's got a beard!'; 'Well, maybe it's a European thing'; 'Oh hey, that's OK then'. Beardism is rampant.
2
The period during which one has a beard.
the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism
3
A support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards.
arguments […] neither wholly for, nor yet entirely against the propagation of beardism
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Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative ass
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When the Americans first took me on there was great debate about it. They thought it might be seen as shifty or untrustworthy. They said, 'Oh he's got a beard!'; 'Well, maybe it's a European thing'; '
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the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism
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